A startup is openly advertising AI workers as replacements for human employees, bad news for white-collar workers in sales and support roles.

• San Francisco startup Artisan put up billboards from San Francisco to New York saying "Stop hiring humans" and "The era of AI employees is here."
• Artisan builds AI sales agents that do cold emails, lead generation, and prospecting — jobs normally done by human salespeople.
• The ads are aimed directly at CEOs and executives, pushing them to cut human hires and use AI instead.
• Sales reps, human resources staff, and other office workers are seen as most at risk of being replaced.
• Claims that AI will create more jobs than it kills are dismissed as wishful thinking.

Outlook: More companies are expected to cut hiring and shift work to AI agents, with white-collar job losses likely to grow.